US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on Feb. 17 for "Adhesively joined structure and component for a vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,965, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Adhesively joined structure and component for a vehicle" was invented by Masumi Koori (Tokyo), Kohei Ueda (Tokyo), Atsushi Morishita (Tokyo) and Atsuo Koga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This adhesively joined structure includes a first member having a metal portion and a film portion disposed on at least a part of a surface of the metal portion; a second member; an adhesive layer for joining the first member and the second member to each other via the film portion. The film portion includes an organic resin phase containing one or more of a urethane group, a...